Mpumalanga

The Mpumalanga is a province of South Africa since 1995 located in the part is Transvaal. Its name means “place where the sun rises”.

History former to 1994

See Transvaal.

History since 1994

In 1994, the 4 provinces of South Africa are redécoupées in 9 provinces.

The historical province of the Transvaal itself is divided into 4 new provinces of which Transvaal of the East (Eastern Transvaal), which becomes the Mpumalanga the August 26th 1995 when it is renamed by the provincial authorities dominated by ANC.

Nelspruit is the provincial capital of Mpumalanga.

It also integrates on its territory several old Bantoustan S created under the mode of Apartheid.

Policy

In 1994, the first provincial elections in Eastern Transvaal gave a majority crushing to the ANC, confirmed in 1999 and 2004.

The residual opposition is represented by the democratic Alliance and the Front of Freedom.

At the time of the municipal elections of 2006, the ANC gained 80,6% of the voices of the residents of Mpumalanga and the majority in the 17 local municipalities and the 3 districts of the province.

Demography

By skin color:
  • African: 92,4%
  • White: 6,5% (mainly of Afrikaners)
  • Asian: 0,2%
    • Mongrel
  • : 0,2%

By native tongues:

  • SiSwati 30,8%
  • IsiZulu 26,4%
  • IsiNdebele 12,1%
  • Sepedi 10,8%
  • Others: less than 10%

Tourism

The province shelters some tourist jewels of South Africa to be started with the National park Kruger (of the name of the former president of Transvaal), refuge of all the fauna of the country and one of the largest parks of the world.

One also finds there the Blyde River Canyon, the picturesque village of Pilgrim Rest as well as a multitude of water falls (Lisbon Falls, Mac Mac Falls) and typical landscapes of the high plateaus (God' S Window).

Following the example province of the Limpopo, the provincial authorities plan to Africanize or réorthographier more than 2500 names of cities (Nelspruit, Lydenburg…) and various places (rivers, streets, mountains…).

List provincial towns of Mpumalanga

Area of the Escarpment

  • Belfast
  • Dullstroom
  • Graskop
  • Lydenburg
  • Machadodorp
  • Ohrigstad
  • Pilgrim' S Rest
  • Sabie
  • Waterval Boven
  • Waterval Onder

Area of the plains

Area the top veld

  • Balfour
  • Bethal
  • Delmas
  • Greylingstad
  • Groblersdal
  • Kinross
  • KwaMhlanga
  • Loopspruit
  • Marble Hall
  • Middelburg
  • Secunda
  • Standerton
  • Trichardt
  • Witbank

Area of bottom veld

  • Barberton
  • Hazyview
  • Hectorspruit
  • Kaapmuiden
  • Komatipoort
  • Malelane
  • Nelspruit
  • Skukuza
  • White To rivet
  • Retrieved

External bonds

  • Web site of the provincial government of Mpumalanga
  • Tourist office of Mpumalanga
  • provincial Flag and blazon of Mpumalanga
  • Tourist sites of Mpumalanga

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